Business

SMEs ask EU to suspend and simplify PPWR’s authorized representative rules

EU policymakers must suspend the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation’s requirement for SMEs to appoint authorized representatives in each

Home-compostable cling films brought to foodservice market in Europe

Purple Planet Packaging will distribute deep-tech start-up N&E Innovations’ home-compostable cling films made from tropical

A one-month retrospective on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

What do MEPs have to say about the PPWR’s administrative burden for SMEs?

On Wednesday, Members of the European Parliament debated the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation’s impacts on small businesses selling

How do we bring biobased packaging materials to commercial scale?

Where will the next generation of sustainable packaging materials come from, and how will they reach commercial scale? Ward Heij,

Non-EU companies selling in Europe held to new e-commerce and customs rules

The European Parliament has approved a major reform of the EU Customs Code that treats non-EU businesses selling to

Sri Lankan universities receive €110,000 to research single-use plastics in food sector

The European Union funded Circular project has announced three research grants totalling €110,000 to support university-led studies in

Avantium and Klöckner Pentaplast to explore plant-based polymer use in food packaging

Avantium has signed a capacity reservation agreement with Klöckner Pentaplast (kp films) to explore the use of its plant-based

Inside the single-use cup investigation that put McDonald’s in hot water

The Fair Resource Foundation filed an enforcement request against McDonald’s Netherlands for breaking Dutch law and serving single-use

Unilever, P&G, Nestlé and more join recyclable, flexible paper consortium

Unilever, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Mars are founding members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new

IMFA’s European Regulation Tracker to help moulded fibre comply with EU rules

The International Molded Fiber Association (IMFA) has launched a European Regulation Tracker to help its members understand and adjust to

Local associations support dropping mandatory plastic bottle deposit in France

France Urbaine, l’Association des Maires de France (AMF), Intercommunalités de France and the Cercle National du Recyclage (CNR) praise